inclined fault vs fracture

inclined fault and fracture both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
inclined fault	Yes	No	No	No
fracture	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, fracture is a hypernym of inclined fault; that is, fracture is a word with a broader meaning than inclined fault:

inclined fault: a geological fault in which one side is above the other
fracture: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

Other hypernyms of inclined fault include break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift.

inclined fault (noun)	fracture (noun)
a geological fault in which one side is above the other	the act of cracking something
	(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
	breaking of hard tissue such as bone